Art Quote by Waverley Root

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various…

— Robert Burns

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well…

— Henry David Thoreau

Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result,but…

— Henry David Thoreau

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

— Henry James

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon…

— John Ruskin

Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of…

— Joseph Addison

The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

— Oscar Wilde

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never…

— John Herschel

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

— Umberto Eco

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the…

— Washington Irving